Artists in Dartmouth and Wesport will be opening the doors to their studios this weekend for the 7th annual Art Drive.

Traversing the two coastal towns, the Art Drive offers art collectors the opportunity to meet with the artists in their studios, and in some cases, watch demonstrations of various forms of art.

Beverly Carter, one of the organizers of the Art Drive, said the demonstrations range from ikebana, the Japanese art of floral arranging, to a jeweler making glass beads to a demonstration by a metal worker.

The types of art on view in the studios participating in the Art Drive is just as varied.

“It features a range of talent: woodworkers, sculptors, watercolors, painters, assemblage and three jewelry makers,” said Carter.

A juried open studio weekend, Carter said they limit the number of artists participating each year to make it manageable for art collectors to visit many of the open studios on Aug. 9 and 10. In all, 36 artists are participating this year, though some have teamed up to show off their work together in one studio space, making for fewer stops along the approximately 15-mile route.

Carter, who has studied various forms of pottery making, will be showing her latest work done in the contained method known as saggar firing. Carter adds salt marsh and seaweed to the container in which the pottery is being fired in the kiln.

“The colors are phenomenal,” she said. “As they burn it creates colors and patterns on the piece.”

Three other potters, Martha Sears, Amy Thurber, and Wendy Goldsmith will also be showing their pieces during the Art Drive and each one works in a different style, she said. Thurber, of Dove’s Foot Pottery, creates one-of-a-kind pottery using leaves and garden pieces, added Carter.

This year there’s also an exhibit of work from “Emerging Artists,” college students Matthieu Oliviera and Caitlyn Kenney.

Every year the participating artists create a fish to help support the Art Drive, and this year, it’s the Flipping Flounder. The three-foot long interpretations have been on display throughout the two communities and they will be auctioned off on eBay.

The Art Drive artists also give a percentage of their proceeds from the annual event to the Lloyd Center for Environment to help support the community resource that has “done so much to educate kids,” said Carter. As of last year, she said they’ve donated a total of $25,000 to the non-profit organization.